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Reflections On Christian Marriage Counseling

Reflections On Christian Marriage Counseling

 

Now that my wife has passed away and I have some time to reflect on the past and on my marriage I thought it would be helpful to others to summarize my experience with Christian Marriage counseling.  I always felt that the ideal form of Christian marriage counseling would consist of these major elements:

  1. It would involve both a husband and a wife counselors (i.e. a spiritually mature and perhaps also a physically mature… Continue reading

The Trinity In The Old Testament

The Trinity In The Old Testament

The Triune Godhead Can Be Found In The Book Of Isaiah

 

“Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.” [Isaiah 48:16]

 

In the above verse, we have the pre-incarnate Christ speaking.  And what he is saying is confirmation of the triune godhead.

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Comparison Of God-Centered And Man-Centered Worship

Comparison Of God-Centered And Man-Centered Worship

 

Category

God-Centered Worship

Man-Centered Worship

Goal

Glorifying God by our worship must be our goal, our highest priority. (I Cor. 10:31)

It sounds elementary, but the purpose of our corporate worship service is for our congregation to worship God. Evangelism, though important, is secondary.

Bringing people in by our worship service is the highest goal in man-centered worship.

Though this seems like a noble goal, it must not be our highest goal. When… Continue reading

What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?

What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?

 

puzzled looking man sinners prayer unbiblical

 

“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” – Luke 18:13″

 

There’s nothing wrong with the ABOVE prayer.  No one told the man to say it.  No one told him that by saying it he would receive salvation or anything from God.  God had apparently already… Continue reading

Segregation Of The Saints

Segregation Of The Saints

church segregation categories

Just step back and take a look at how most churches operate today.  They seem to separate people into all sorts of groups as if this was “the way” to do things.  But is this practice biblical?  Where in the world did this phenomenon come from and what in the world is it all about?  Churches separate people into all sorts of categories:

  • By age – infants, toddlers, pre-teens, teens, young adults, seniors, etc.
  • By marital… Continue reading

Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>